Sentence examples for problematic ally is from inspiring English sources
Perhaps the West's most problematic ally is Turkey.
If working with allies is problematic, things get even mopre complicated when Americans work with countries like Syria, which the United States accuses of sponsoring terrorism; with Pakistan, which has a history of ties to the Taliban; and with authoritarian regimes like those in Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
One Christian Democrat allows that speaking in front of a monument to a victory over neighbors who are today friends and allies "is a problematic symbol".
Saudi Arabia has been a problematic ally in combating Islamic extremism.
Your blog already cites other experts pointing out that the LRA has been outside Uganda for several years, is far smaller than Invisible Children try to make believe, and that the Ugandan government and army are a deeply problematic ally in their campaign.
Some of its new deputies find speaking Latvian hard.Mr Dombrovskis's nationalist former allies were also problematic.
Its grasp of some details, however, is less than reassuring -- particularly details about Saudi Arabia, which it calls, in a gross understatement, "a problematic ally in combating Islamic extremism".
